Anderson Valley 20th Anniversary Imperial IPA

Brewed by Anderson Valley Brewing Company
Style: Imperial/Double IPA
Boonville, California USA

Serve in Snifter, Tulip

(Bottle) Pours reddish amber. The aroma is fruity, light floral, light citric and rather caramelly. Undertones of peach, pineapple and frozen strawberries. The flavour is medium to heavily sweet and medium bitter with citric, floral, fruity and aggressive caramelly notes. The mouthfeel is sticky and medium carbonated. Resinous aftertaste. Medium to full bodied.

Pours a hazy golden yellow with a nice frothy white head and good lacing. Aroma is grapefruit and floral hop that is very intense and tart. Taste is a bold grapefruit hop bitterness. Sickly sweet and syrupy, it’s a nice DIPA but it feels that it’s overdone with the hop additions and attention wasn’t paid on actually making sure it tastes good.

650ml bottle pours a golden orangeish color with about 2 fingers of white head which settles to some nice lacing on the glass. Aroma is pine and citrus with some light caramel malt. Taste is modest pine and citrusy hops with a light caramel sweetness. This beer is decently balanced with adequate carbonation and a medium body. Quite tasty and not too over the top with the hops. Well done.

Bottle bought @ BiBere Roma. awesome copper wire color full of bubbles, white/smoky color. Aroma of hops, dried leaves (OMG here we go again...), malt, caramel, pineapple, a little bit of grapefruit and Hazelnut in background. The taste is full of dried leaves and hops, malt, citrus peel, more caramel and hazelnut (i got some nutella presence forcing me to use the beer-geek T-factor!). bitter finish, not intense at all but quite long and full of freshness. Very robust body, it fizzes a lot, you are drinking a 9° beer and you can feel it. Honestly i don’t know if this DIPA was intended to taste like so, or if the bottle was just old. It has a lot of freshness anyhow, well balancing the other elements. It’s not a plain or basic beer for sure, but the result is a Little bit a mess and definitely not enjoyable. BTW it fits the DIPA style better than the "TripleIPA" hops/malt bomb.

25 cl. draft @ Delirium Hoppy Loft: poured into a pint glass / Honestly I have never heard before of either this brewery or this beer, I only know the famous US breweries & it is my understanding that the states are riddled with IPA’s / Went pretty much unbiased into this one / It had a pretty lovely hazy peach colour with a small white head / Yep, pure delicious hop, floral & grassy hops (emphasised in the smell), grapefruit & peach hops (slightly more in the taste than in the smell), would have liked this one a little bit more pronounce, touch of spice, although I did have this after my De Molen Vuur & Vlam which might have the wrong order / Chewy, slightly oily hops & to a lesser extent body but only slightly / Decent enough IIPA even if not necessarily very impressive

Draft @ Delirium Hoppy Loft. Couleur orangée brumeuse, col beige épais.Bière fruitée, liquoreuse et résineuse. Note de pêche, grains de brassin avec une légère amertume. Malt caramel restant dans le registre IPA américaines. Palais épais et siropé avec une légère amertume sur la fin.

Bottle. Pours a clear golden color with a small off-white head. Aromas of pine and citrus. Flavor is nicely balance between sweet caramel and mild hops. Finish is slightly sweet but with nice fruity/citrus notes from the hops.

Bottled 355ml. Notice: This is the 8.7 ABV ordered from bierzwerg.de. Are there some other versions? A pretty pleasant double IPA. Balanced, lovely hop profile. Quince, some pear being quite present. Full bodied.